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Hi. So I made a big mistake, updating my bios to v1.32. Now my graphics card (nVidia GeForce 840m) does not work. When I browse internet or write code, its ok, but when my laptop decides to choose nVidia card for use (gaming), the screen freezes in a few seconds, and then I can do nothing, often it ends in BSoD (nvlddmkm, VIDEO_TDR, DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION). My laptop specs:
Laptop Model: Acer Aspire E5-571G-52VR
OS: Win10
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics + nVidia GeForce 840M
RAM: 12GB
The things I did:
- Uninstalled (with DDU) and installed again the nVidia graphics driver (there is even one, which came out today, tested it already)
- Reinstalled the game many times
- Reinstalled Windows (keeping the files) + checked for both not updated and updated nVidia grahpics driver + checked for both old and new game installation
- Reinstalled Windows (removing all the files) and again checked for both possible ways for driver/game
- I did return to default BIOS settings (v1.32 stayed the same)
- I managed to downgrade to 1.31 - still the same
- Did dozens of restarts, plug-out/ins
- Downloaded a nVidia driver from official Acer site, (was 353, mine was 370 something (from 15th Nov 2016))
Can I do something about it? Cuz I guess I would have to downgrade my BIOS... (dunno what was previous version, but the oldest I can find on acer site for my laptop model is 1.09)